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Part of Something Larger than Ourselves

As I mentioned in my previous post I have spent months reading world history.

One of the fascinating things I have learned is the history of the nuclear program.

It turns out that Albert Einstein told the President of the United States about the potential to make a nuclear bomb before 1939. Before World War II even started.

The United States began a program to build a nuclear weapon.

There were two facilities preparing the fissionable materials Uranium 235 and Plutonium.

The Uranium 235 facility in Tennessee was the largest industrial complex in the United States to that date and consumed ten percent of the United States electrical power supply. No one except the President of the United States and a handful of people actually knew why the complex existed. Even the people who built it and worked at the facility did not know what they were making.

The Plutonium facility in Washington State was built in a desert adjacent to one of the state’s largest rivers to provide cooling. The site had several large nuclear reactors and again no one except the President of the United State and a handful of people actually knew why this complex existed. Even the people who built it and worked at the facility did not know what they were making.

The same went for the Nevada testing site. Thousands of people worked in the Nevada desert building the facility where the nuclear devices were constructed. No one except the President of the United States and a handful of people knew why the complex existed. Even the people who built it and worked at the facility did not know what they were making.

These facilities came into existence before the Second World War and operated with only the knowledge of the President of the United States and a small community of people right up until the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear devices. That means the largest scientific, engineering, industrial and military project in the world was operating without almost anyone’s knowledge. Including General MacArthur the Supreme Commander of the Pacific Allied Forces.

And until the moment of detonation, no one on Earth knew if each device would even work.

All of us in the world are part of something larger than we understand. Each of us only knows a subsystem of the global human system. We each have knowledge the rest of the world does not have. And we are each influencing as individuals, as the human colony and as part of nature the course the Earth is taking.

None of us has an understanding of the full picture and none of us ever will. Historians admit we will never understand why any world event of any kind is happening.

What we have to accept is that the Universe, Nature, Yawheh, God, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Manitou, Ehecatl, Shango, Bochica, Wandjina, Io and all creators told us their creation is “Very Good”.

All hardships stem from humanity doubting this.

We are all part of something greater than ourselves and we simply will never understand all of it as Goedel the mathematician explained to us in his proof.

After 25 years developing information systems I realized every system will be asked to do something it is not designed to do.

That is what Charles Darwin was explaining to us. Whatever the Universe’s origin it is constantly evolving. We will always find something larger than ourselves, the same as ourselves and smaller than ourselves that we have not encountered before. The Universe is just too vast for us to experience all of it.

Einstein told Heisenberg, “God does not play dice.” Heisenberg agreed and told Einstein, “We will never know what game God is playing.”

Von Clauswitz said this is also the case for warfare. Peter Drucker said this is also the case for business.

After decoding the human genome biologists are saying the same thing too.

If you want to be happy in life everything in the Universe is telling you this: There is no meaning you will fully understand, just accept moment to moment everything is very good.

4 Responses to “Part of Something Larger than Ourselves”

Hi Grant,
Thanks for posting on my wall in FB.
I have little time for extended rounds on belief systems, but here are a couple of things perhaps to ponder:
You say:
“What we have to accept is that the Universe, Nature, Yawheh, God, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Manitou, Ehecatl, Shango, Bochica, Wandjina, Io and all creators told us their creation is “Very Good”.

All hardships stem from humanity doubting this.”

From my perspective, that’s a total crock, and worse, it reflects a superficial understanding of cognitiion.

Question everything and accept only what you can recognise in heartspace. This is the path of the masters and then claim your own space in the system. From this place we can express how we wish to be in the world as part of that which is bigger than us.